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The 217th chapter takes a sharp turn (3)

Large oil fields and coal fields that can only be discovered in deserts, Gobi, or barren mountains and barren mountains are absolutely not rare in the Northeast. Even if you can't dig a few meters deep into the ground, it is a very rich coal seam, which does not prevent the fertile black soil on the surface of the ground from growing soybeans and rice, or the mountains are covered with lush and lush primeval forests.

This land that was favored by God has experienced a long-term predatory development in the pre-war era. The originally abundant crude oil resources were close to the brink of depletion. The once vast and vast primeval forest was cut down into bald mountains by barbaric logging. The resulting soil erosion caused nature to accumulate for thousands of years and was formed by nearly one meter in its precious black soil layer. Due to the excessive development and destruction of the pre-war era, in today's wasteland era, the black soil taken over by survivors is far from the rich and beautiful as more than a hundred years ago.

Today, the Northeast still has considerable reserves of mines such as coal, iron, copper, lead, zinc, nickel, gold, magnesite, etc. The problem is that most of these resources are not in the territory of Baishanbo. Even within the jurisdiction, Wu Han cannot send enough manpower to restore the production of these mines.

Considering the huge benefits brought by data conversion technology, in the early development plan, the main resources of Taohuayuan are to tilt into scientific research and industrial departments, striving to achieve large-scale industrial production and precision machining. The large-scale promotion of the use of female workers to replace men was pulled by Wu Han to the battlefield later. Therefore, for Baishanboguo, population problems have always been a shortcoming. At present, relying on the limited ore provided by two vassals and the limited ore provided by Bei Goryeo to meet the initial scale of large-scale assembly line production, the difficulty is to try to feed a hungry Siberian tiger with a ham sausage.

"Okay then! I'll take the order first, but you should see the raw materials appear as soon as possible, otherwise, don't expect me to use the emergency reserves at the bottom of the box to produce these things for you."

With a smile, he shook the thick stack of orders in his hand. Wu Han's tone of speech was still not very polite. However, as the situation was so far, Meng Shenji and Wang Chao no longer cared about criticizing him for his grammar problems, but repeatedly asked to provide the machinery and equipment and related consumables needed for mining as soon as possible. After receiving Wu Han's repeated promises, the two exhausted bosses were not interested in fighting and said goodbye to go back to arrange for the successive attacks.

I believe that the winter that survivors will spend next will be particularly long and dark!

After seeing off Meng Shenji and Wang Chao, who had caught fire in the backyard, Wu Han had just breathed a sigh of relief and did not get a moment of tranquility. As soon as he turned his head, two vassals from Baishan Bo Kingdom came to ask for help. After the conference was held, they had to continue the meeting soon.

The fiefs of Zhang Gongdou and Zhao Manxiong are far away from the grassland to the west, but two giant-level forces such as the Duchy of Longjiang and the Duchy of Changchun were all attacked by monsters and were furious. Zhang Gongdou and Zhao Manxiong, who were far inferior to others, were inevitably nervous. Since the Peach Blossom Source has opened restrictions on weapon exports, we should take care of our own safety needs!

When the two vassals showed up with their big boss about security issues, Wu Han smiled helplessly and said:

"You can do weapons, but according to the old rules, you have to exchange them for raw materials. At most, I won't charge processing fees. You can't let me even get the materials!"

Upon hearing this, Zhao Manxiong was impatient to place an order and rushed to say:

"Okay, one word is certain."

Zhang Gongdou, who was robbed of white, looked at Zhao Manxiong with his eyes slanted. His lips moved a few times, but he still didn't speak. Zhang Gongdou understood the principle that a small impatience would cause chaos. Now is the moment of storm, and it is not suitable for turning against the insider!

Later, the two of them wrote at their desks for a while and proposed their own preparation plans. Of course, the scale of this plan is smaller than that of Wang Chao and Meng Shenji. Overall, it is limited to the gun replacement of security forces, equipped with light fortress cannons and heavy machine guns in settlements, plus a large number of mines and bulk explosives. These things together form the psychological defense line between Zhang Gongdou and Zhao Manxiong. Rather than strengthening combat readiness, they are following others to cause trouble for Wu Han. However, since they have proposed that they have just received a large military purchase order that is dozens of times more large, Wu Han cannot refuse this small business. One sheep is to drive, and two sheep are also released!

"And! Chirp..."

I believe that every survivor who unfortunately lived in a settlement attacked by monsters will never forget this sound that sounds like a yellow oriole singing, and occasionally like a crane. For them, this sound is a desolate elegy from the world of death.

As several rare blizzards fell in the prairie in the middle of winter, the snow of five meters deep in some areas made it extremely difficult for herbivorous monsters to feed. If there were no accidents, these monsters with far more muscles than their heads would find ways to survive by themselves. It is estimated that in the end they would fall helplessly in the snow and turn into frozen corpses. However, with their owners, those creatures with strange appearances and birds and lizards, to find a solution, the situation would be completely different.

Natural disasters forced life on the prairie to find new ways out. Under the guidance of these strange creatures, the herbivorous monsters began to trek eastward in collective treks. In the East, the lands belonging to human survivors did not drop such heavy snow, so it was relatively easier to find food in the wild.

If the whole incident only ends here, it may not be a tragedy, but a series of coincidences triggered the survival war between humans and monsters.

After the monsters ate the withered wild grass and shrubs for several days, a grain transport operation at Jiangqiao Farm became the direct cause of the disaster. A small amount of food scattered on the snow in the sack loaded by the sled attracted the attention and thinking of the strange creatures that drove the giant monsters. With their innate intelligence, these strange creatures with innate intelligence were no less than humans quickly understood the implicit meaning of this phenomenon. That is, these weak creatures walking on two legs had the habit of storing a large amount of food, which immediately opened the prelude to the riot.

Survival is the instinct of all living things, deeply engraved in the genetic sequence, and prioritization must be based on the instinct of reproduction. In order to live, there is no distinction between goodness and evil, and there is no difference between correctness and fallacy. The root cause of this conflict between humans and monsters is that limited food will determine who can survive. Because of this, the contradiction between the two sides is truly irreconcilable.

At the beginning, humans with fragile bodies were not regarded as threats by monsters, but after successfully robbing, they ate the last spoil and then looked for the next target to attack. As a result, the monsters' actions to plunder food inevitably turned into a bloody massacre under the fierce resistance of human survivors. Herbivores are not equivalent to being weak and bullied, and food preferences cannot be equated with actual combat effectiveness. Just like on the African grassland, the well-deserved overlord is the elephant who likes to eat tender grass and leaves, rather than the lion, the king of beasts that humans think is very powerful. When those herbivores with huge bodies start to act, the consequences are catastrophic.

Eat the law of knowing the taste! For monsters, searching for dry weeds and nutrient-deficient shrubs and branches to fill their stomachs in the white snow, the food grown and stored by humans is undoubtedly a delicious food that is easy to obtain. If humans are accustomed to pile up a large amount of food in one place, just breaking the peripheral defense can obtain enough food for many days, this kind of food that is within reach is simply a gift from heaven for powerful monsters.

Whether it was Wang Chao's Duchy of Longjiang, or the Duchy of Changchun under Meng Shenji, or the Hongxingzi Kingdom, which was split from Hongliu Company and founded by Situ Bo, they all encountered the same difficulties. As long as the human settlements near the grasslands, there were attacks of hungry raiders patronizing the settlements.

Not everyone has the strong fantasy of being killed like Wu Han, who has a miserable life. Most of the small settlements on the periphery have limited defense. If they are used to deal with sporadic ones, two medium-sized or slightly larger monsters, these defense methods are barely enough. When they encounter a group of monsters driven by strange animals, the pitiful defense system of these settlements is like a fragile egg shell and is not worthy of any expectation.

As bad news comes from the frontier, in order to reduce losses, Wang Chao and Meng Shenji successively ordered the contraction of defense to abandon all the settlements that are easy to attack and difficult to defend. At the same time, they sent more people and vehicles to transport the food stored in the settlements as much as possible, intending to use the countermeasures of the strong walls and clear the fields to kill the monsters.

One of the basic uses of intelligence is to give the owner the ability to analyze the essence of things through superficial phenomena.

When the human side began to resist passively, the monsters were still aimlessly attacking the empty settlements, but as the harvest of each plunder became less and less. At this time, the strange creatures that drove the monsters to forage, call them herders as grazers! They had already realized what this unusual sign meant, and then the grazers consciously drove the monsters to migrate eastward, accelerating the search for new foraging sites, and gradually shifted the attack targets to settlements that humans believed were safer.

The situation of this conflict is taking a sharp turn in a direction that humans cannot control. I believe that people with more active minds have already seen this.

When a whistling gust of wind carried hard and cold snow particles and hit people's faces with a faint pain. When the cold wind whistled past the white snowfield, the shrill sound made by the wind blew through the bushes can only remind people of the moans of the evil spirits and ghosts in the supernatural film.
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